1984: 75th AnniversaryWritten 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... This 75th Anniversary Edition includes: • A New Introduction by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Take My Hand, winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Fiction • A New Afterword by Sandra Newman, author of Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984 “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching... A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time. • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read • |
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... vocabulary , the B vo- cabulary ( also called compound words ) , and the C vocabulary . It will be simpler to discuss each class separately , but the grammat- ical peculiarities of the language can be dealt with in the section devoted ...
... vocabulary , the B vo- cabulary ( also called compound words ) , and the C vocabulary . It will be simpler to discuss each class separately , but the grammat- ical peculiarities of the language can be dealt with in the section devoted ...
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75th Anniversary George Orwell. need made itself felt chiefly in connection with the B vocabulary . Why so great an importance was attached to ease of pronunciation will be made clear later in this essay . The B vocabulary . The B ...
75th Anniversary George Orwell. need made itself felt chiefly in connection with the B vocabulary . Why so great an importance was attached to ease of pronunciation will be made clear later in this essay . The B vocabulary . The B ...
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... vocabulary was tiny , and new ways of reducing it were constantly being devised . Newspeak , in- deed , differed from almost all other languages in that its vocabu- lary grew smaller instead of larger every year . Each reduction was a ...
... vocabulary was tiny , and new ways of reducing it were constantly being devised . Newspeak , in- deed , differed from almost all other languages in that its vocabu- lary grew smaller instead of larger every year . Each reduction was a ...
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